IMMUNOLOGY2024™

May 3–7, 2024 | Chicago, Illinois

Head of Computational Resources

Immunology Center of Georgia at Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia, USA

Immunology Center of Georgia

The Immunology Center of Georgia (IMMCG) represents a new initiative by the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University to leverage the ability of the immune system to combat disease. The IMMCG will accomplish this by assembling teams of biomedical researchers with strong records of scientific innovation and technological development. The IMMCG will be co-directed by world-class immunologists Drs. Catherine ‘Lynn’ Hedrick and Klaus Ley, both of whom have made major discoveries linking immune cells to specific mechanisms of disease. The goal of the IMMCG is to produce novel and effective treatments for conditions that heavily impact the communities of Georgia and the United States. The new center is aggressively recruiting faculty and staff to lead projects focused on cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic disorders, autoimmune and infectious disease, neurodegenerative disease and cancer.

Medical College of Georgia

The Medical College of Georgia is one of the nation’s largest medical schools by class size, with 260 students per class. The educational experience is anchored by the main campus in Augusta, regional clinical campuses for third- and fourth-year students across the state and a second four-year campus in Athens in partnership with the University of Georgia. MCG’s expanding partnerships with physicians and hospitals across Georgia currently provides about 350 sites where students can experience the full spectrum of medicine, from complex care hospitals to small-town solo practices. MCG and its teaching hospitals also provide postgraduate education to more than 500 residents and fellows in 50 different Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-approved programs. Our researchers and clinicians focus on what most impacts the health of Georgia’s and America’s children and adults, including cardiovascular biology and disease, cancer, neurosciences and behavioral sciences, public and preventive health, regenerative and reparative medicine, personalized medicine and genomics. Our physician faculty also share their expertise with physicians and patients at about 100 clinics and hospitals statewide.

Job Summary

Head of Computational Resources for RNA Sequencing.

Responsibilities

The duties include, but are not limited to:

Under the Director, Bioinformatics Central

  • Review computational resources and recommend upgrades.
  • Coordinate with cluster administrator regarding optimal usage of High-Performance Computing cluster as well as installation of software.
  • Coordinate with the Head of Training on training-relevant issues.
  • Enforce metadata collection.
  • Establish guidelines for optimal storage of data in collaboration with cluster administrators and PIs.
  • Establish and recommend workflows for analysis of; Bulk RNA-Seq, Low input RNA-Seq, Single cell RNA-Seg (I Ox and Rhapsody) TCR-Seq, BCR-Seq, A TAC-Seq
  • Advise wet lab personnel on experimental design.
  • Coordinate with sequencing core to collect all FASTQ files with metadata.
  • Deliver standard analysis pipeline results, in figures, according to the experiment; As an example: scRNA-Seq:  QC, Clustering and Projection, Differential Expression (DE), Trajectory analysis, Cell-Cell Communication or Bulk RNA-Seq:  QC, Exploratory Analysis, DE, Pathway Enrichment.
  • Discuss with stakeholders regarding non-standard ad-hoc analyses. Give in-house seminars.
  • Recommend speakers for external seminars. Keep abreast of cutting-edge advances in the analysis of sequencing data.

Dr. Klaus Ley’s Lab

Supervise all bioinformaticians in Dr. Ley’s lab, assign tasks. Advise postdocs on bioinformatics. Conduct more complicated analysis steps. Prepare publication-quality figures.

Learn More and Apply Today!

For details, contact Debbie Ellison, dellison@augusta.edu.

Posting ID: 426